Steve McIntyre, administrator of the Debian wiki, announced that
due to a security breach,
all
wiki.debian.org account passwords are being reset.
In order to regain access to your wiki account, you'll need to
follow the
password
recovery process.
In the mail, Steve explained that the Debian Security Team recently
found a
vulnerability
in the moin package which had been succesfully exploited for
wiki.debian.org.
The wiki has already been moved to another server and an audit of the old
server is ongoing.

Stefano Zacchiroli sent his monthly report of DPL activities for December 2012.
Stefano reported about progress in the DPL helpers
experiment, as well as collaborations with external projects such as
the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and Free Software Foundation (FSF).
In addition, Stefano reported that the debian.eu domain is
finally under control of the Debian System Administrators.

According to the Bugs Search interface of the Ultimate Debian Database, the upcoming release, Debian Wheezy, is currently affected by 171 Release-Critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 116 Release-Critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen.

Please note that these are a selection of the more important security advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the security mailing list (and the separate backports list, and stable updates list) for announcements.

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